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Jesef Williamsjwilliams@thelancasternews.com
KERSHAW – A tour of the Haile Gold Mine property may remind you of the field trips elementary school students take with their science class.
There’s plenty of land to explore. The natural outdoors surround you. Unfamiliar terminology is used periodically, as a facilitator talks in detail about the wetlands, wildlife and natural resources close by.

Reece Murphyrmurphy@thelancasternews.com
Frustrated parents of Indian Land High and Middle school wrestlers are exploring new ways to promote the sport and build it a home of its own on campus following a meeting with school officials.
Nearly 30 parents attended the meeting last month with ILHS Principal David Shamble, ILMS Principal David McDonald, ILES Principal Beth Blum, ILHS Athletic Director Mike Mayer and wrestling coaches Rondale Truesdale and Kevin Mager.

Nancy Parsons
Landmark News Service
GREAT FALLS – Ashley Whittle of Great Falls remains in stable, but critical condition at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, according to her father, Chris Whittle.
Whittle, 24, was first airlifted to Palmetto Richland Memorial hospital on Jan. 30 after she suffered a serious head injury on her job at Morcon. After arriving in Columbia, she was airlifted to the Charleston hospital.

Denyse Clark
Landmark News Service
RICHBURG – A suspect got away with $325 from an area motel after an early morning armed robbery Feb. 3, according to information from the Chester County Sheriff’s Office. Shortly before 1:30 a.m. that day, deputies were called to Motel 6 at 2912 Parkway Blvd. in Richburg in reference to an armed robbery.

KERSHAW – Andrew Jackson High School football standout Robert Massey missed out on his senior football season for the Volunteers, but he’s not going to miss out on a chance to play college football and further his education.

Jesef Williamsjwilliams@thelancasternews.com
A Thursday morning incident at a Lancaster convenience store was not a strong-arm robbery, as was initially thought.
Shortly before 11 a.m., a Lancaster County man entered the Stop-N-Shop store, at 2147 McIlwain Road, in an attempt to cash a lottery ticket, said Maj. Matt Shaw of the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office.
The clerk told him his winning ticket had already been redeemed at another store.
“He didn’t like it and they had an argument about it,” Shaw said.

I read Bruce Miller’s column, “Put America first, not your political party,” in the Dec. 30, 2011, edition of The Lancaster News and I would like to respond.
As I started to read it, I became a bit puzzled by his apparent confusion between “we” the American people and “we” the Republican Party. He appears to bunch them together as one and the same. He goes on to say that the Democrats are “partying” over the struggle for an identity by (his) party.